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pawn
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
- (US) IPA(key): /p?n/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /p?n/
- (Southern American English) IPA(key): /p??n/
- Homophone: porn (non-rhotic accents)
Etymology 1
From Middle English pown, pawn, from Anglo-Norman paun, poun (“pawn, pedestrian”) ( = Old French poon, päon, pëon), from Late Latin ped?, ped?nis (“footsoldier”), from Latin p?s, ped- (“foot”). Doublet of peon.
Noun
pawn (plural pawns)
- (chess) The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant.
- (figuratively) Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:pawn
Derived terms
- poisoned pawn
- tall pawn
Translations
See also
- Pawn (chess) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Appendix:Chess_pieces
Etymology 2
From Middle French pan (“pledge, security”), apparently from a Germanic language (compare Middle Dutch pant, Old High German pfant).
Noun
pawn (countable and uncountable, plural pawns)
- (uncountable) The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
- An instance of pawning something.
- As therefore the morning dew is a pawn of the evening fatness, so, O Lord, let this day's comfort be the earnest of to-morrow's.
- (now rare) An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
- , New York, 2001, p.106:
- Brokers, takers of pawns, biting userers, I will not admit; yet […] I will tolerate some kind of usery.
- a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Of Usury
- As for mortgaging or pawning, […] men will not take pawns without use [i.e. interest].
- (rare) A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
Translations
Verb
pawn (third-person singular simple present pawns, present participle pawning, simple past and past participle pawned)
- To pledge; to stake or wager.
- To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
- 1904, Henry Warren, The Customer's Guide to Banking (page 7)
- A certain, and probably an appreciable, proportion of his so-called money at call and short notice would consist of fortnightly advances made to members of the Stock Exchange against pawned stocks and shares.
- 1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone
- But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.
- 1904, Henry Warren, The Customer's Guide to Banking (page 7)
Synonyms
- (to deposit at a pawn shop): hock
Translations
See also
- pawn off
Etymology 3
Noun
pawn (countable and uncountable, plural pawns)
- Alternative form of paan
- 1892, Chambers's Journal (volume 69, page 320)
- To our English taste, pawn is very offensive; but the natives of India relish it, and regard it as a necessity. It is much eaten by Mohammedans of both sexes, and by the natives of Bengal.
- 1892, Chambers's Journal (volume 69, page 320)
Etymology 4
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
pawn (plural pawns)
- A gallery.
Etymology 5
Verb
pawn (third-person singular simple present pawns, present participle pawning, simple past and past participle pawned)
- (video games) Alternative form of pwn
Anagrams
- WPAN
Middle English
Noun
pawn
- Alternative form of pown (“pawn”)
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mawn
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: môn, IPA(key): /m??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Noun
mawn (plural mawns)
- (Scotland, dialect) A maund; a basket or hamper.
- A ghost.
Welsh
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *m?ni- (compare Irish móin).
Noun
mawn m pl (singulative mawnen)
- peat
Derived terms
- mawnbwll (“peat-pit”)
- mawndir (“peaty land”)
- mawnog (“peat-bog”)
Mutation
Etymology 2
Verb
mawn
- Nasal mutation of bawn.
Mutation
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Noun
mawn
- Alternative form of mawen
References
- J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)
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